if they hurt that much, they're pushing all the other teeth together, which means they'll come out of alignement, and you wont be able to clean between them properly, leading to megainfections and other bad tings.

growing at an angle, pressing onto nerve and other teeth. On holiday in Cyprus when it really kicked in. Kindly pharmacist sold me codeine without a prescription, eyeballs shrunk to pinpricks. Sent to specialist on returning home, biggest drillbit available, through centre of tooth, split it into four to remove it. Infection had spread into bone and had to remove part of my jawbone. Left dentist and wandered happily around citycentre, guy in Richer Sounds turned green, didn't realise I had blood all over my teeth/chin etc. Back to Cyprus a year later, another abscess, different tooth, no codeine, meh. Oixies/Teenage Fanclub/Idlewild 2005, fecking abscess, oil of cloves stopped working just as Pixies came on

carry this and a wisdom tooth in bag with me, also had a bullet with my name engraved on it. Schipol airport security stole my bullet last year and got the police involved to see whether or not I was allowed to keep my teeth. Cue questions like 'are these your teeth ?'...